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Frederic Ogden Nash est un poète américain. Lors de son décès en 1971, le New York Times écrivit que « ses saynètes poétiques aux rimes inattendues font de lui le faiseur de poésie humoristique le plus connu du pays ». Wikipedia  

✵ 19. août 1902 – 19. mai 1971
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Ogden Nash: Citations en anglais

“Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
Is planning a ban on smut.”

Smoot Smites Smut
Contexte: Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
Is planning a ban on smut.
Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.
And his reverend occiput.
Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,
Grit your molars and do your dut.,
Gird up your l__ns,
Smite h_p and th_gh,
We'll all be Kansas
By and by.

“Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?”

"Good-by, Old Year, You Oaf or Why Don't They Pay the Bonus?" in The Primrose Path (1935)

“I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.”

"A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“The further through life I drift
The more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.”

"A Penny Saved Is Impossible"
Good Intentions (1942)

“This poem has widely been credited to Nash as a poem with the title "Fleas", but is actually the work of Strickland Gillilan and was originally titled "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes.”

It has been dated to at least 1927 http://www.fun-with-words.com/shortest_poem.html, as published in the Mt Rainier Nature News Notes (1 July 1927).
Misattributed

“Behold the hippopotamus!
We laugh at how he looks to us,
And yet in moments dank and grim,
I wonder how we look to him.”

"The Hippopotamus" http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/848.html

“May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?
I wish to retire till the party's over.”

Many Long Years Ago (1945), Children's Party

“Good wine needs no bush,
And perhaps products that people really want need no
hard-sell or soft-sell TV push.
Why not?
Look at pot.”

"Most Doctors Recommend or Yours For Fast Fast Fast Relief" in The Old Dog Barks Backwards (1972)

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